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Articles 31221 through 31320 of 35809:
- Advantage Ahluwalia (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 02, 2004)
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has brilliantly handled the Left pressure. He had a difficult choice: either to lose the so-called foreign advisers inducted on advisory panels or the five Leftists economists who had ...
- "Nssp: U.S., India Interests In Action" (Hindu, Matthew S. Borman, Oct 02, 2004)
In the article entitled, "India, U.S. & Trade in Technology" (The Hindu, September 27), Mr. R. Ramachandran argues that the recent announcement by President Bush and Prime Minister Singh on Phase One of the U.S.-India Next Steps in Strategic
- Oh, What A Lovely Election! (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 02, 2004)
Cricket has long been a metaphor for fair play, even if William Gilbert Grace (1848-1915), the English progenitor of modern batting and crowd-puller nonpareil, exhibited an approach and spirit that seem almost contemporary.
- Market Discipline Can Get Stuck In Mint Street Controls (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 02, 2004)
A familiar scene in kindergarten classes is a general restlessness of children indulging in all sorts of noisy pranks till the teacher arrives to start, not with words, but with a few thundering thrashes on the table to bring in some discipline.
- The Brighter Side Of Stalemate (Tribune, Pran Chopra , Oct 02, 2004)
After over half a century of talks on Kashmir, Pakistan came up with the first original idea a few weeks ago. With the talks stalemated for quite some time by each side rejecting the other’s demands for a settlement, Pakistan floated the idea that ...
- Kyoto Protocol (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 02, 2004)
Russia’s decision to ratify the Protocol saves it from collapse
- They Also Serve, But By Making Things Difficult (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Oct 02, 2004)
The Roos' law states thus: "If there is a harder way of doing something, someone will find it." The makers of service tax law in India seem to fit the bill perfectly.
- When Milk Mixes With Water, Won't Software Merge In Hardware? (Business Line, D. Murali , Oct 02, 2004)
The Acer India case that was decided by the Supreme Court on September 24 was about a simple dispute: When you load software onto a computer, does it become part of the hardware?
- Running Well (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 02, 2004)
If the Indian economy can sprint at 7.4 per cent in the second and third laps, as it has in the first, the effort will be worth a few cheers. The current account is in surplus while a higher trade deficit of $6.3 billion ($5.56 billion) indicates a rise
- Bombs In Northeast India Kill 35 (CNN.com, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 02, 2004)
Two bomb blasts in northeastern India Saturday killed 35 people and wounded scores of others.
- New Foreign Trade Policy — How To Avoid Another Miss (Business Line, Prabhat Kumar, Oct 01, 2004)
The new Foreign Trade Policy sets an ambitious target of doubling our share of world exports from 0.7 per cent to 1.5 per cent, within five years.
- No Case To Shelve The Bureaucracy (Business Line, Devendra Mishra, Oct 01, 2004)
India's technology-driven growth, while helping the nation move towards self-sustenance and global competitiveness, has bypassed large sections of the population.
- A Terror In Every Bush (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Oct 01, 2004)
Thus spake the army chief of staff: as if the Armed Services (Special Powers) Act applies not just to Kashmir or Manipur, but to the entire country, including its judicial process.
- Cosmetic Changes (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 01, 2004)
The Govt must have the political will to control wasteful expenditure
- Counsel Of Despair (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 01, 2004)
Efforts should be made to insulate the official machinery from political interference
- Gender Budgeting — The Value Of A Homemaker's Meal (Business Line, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Oct 01, 2004)
Women's groups are demanding that women be given more opportunities for earning, and that the unpaid women's domestic work is valued.
- Moving Forward On Kashmir (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Oct 01, 2004)
In moving beyond the traditional posturing on Kashmir, Manmohan Singh and Pervez Musharraf have created a template in which their representatives can explore the elements of a final settlement.
- Never Too Old To Learn (Tribune, Ajay Banerjee, Oct 01, 2004)
Whoever thought the post office will slowly fade into oblivion may need to take a second look.
- Meaningless Ritual (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Oct 01, 2004)
October 2 is Gandhi Jayanthi. All over the country, politicians and other luminaries will solemnly troop to the nearest statue of the Mahatma and deck it with outsize garlands.
- Old Sanawarian Conundrum (Tribune, Baljit Malik, Oct 01, 2004)
Sanawar’s Founder’s Day is coming up in early October. This year, however, Founder’s at the Lawrence School is slated to be different.
- Search For An Idiom (Telegraph, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Oct 01, 2004)
In London last year, I encountered a Bangla band somewhat different from the dime-a-dozen ones that have sprung up lately.
- Yuan: The Hero Turns Villain (Business Line, M.R. Venkatesh, Oct 01, 2004)
Given the large trade imbalance between the US and China, a recent US Government report argues that the yuan should be revalued upward.
- Priorities In Bank Consolidation (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 01, 2004)
Financial sector consolidation in India, a perennial theme of the economic reform agenda, has gained topicality with Finance Minister P. Chidambaram and senior government officials advocating mergers between banks as a means to speed up the process.
- Thinking Aloud On Rule Without A King (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Oct 01, 2004)
It is a paradox of political life in Nepal that of all the demands raised by the Maoist insurgents in the past few years, their call for a democratically elected Constituent Assembly has proved to be the most subversive one.
- Institutional Mechanisms Do Matter (Business Line, A. Vasudevan, Sep 30, 2004)
The foreign experts issue can be solved by reconstituting the Planning Commission consultative groups with experts from the public sector or the Indian academia and other domestic activities.
- End Of Textile Quota Regime (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Sep 30, 2004)
Unless huge investment and modernisation of the mills take place, and proliferation of unorganised mills is curbed, India would lose out to China in the textiles race.
- Centre’S Austerity Drive (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 30, 2004)
THE Union Government’s announcement of a 20-point austerity drive is well-intentioned. The measures, to be effective from October 1, are aimed at saving an annual expenditure of over Rs 2,000 crore.
- Better Roads (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 30, 2004)
The Union Government has cleared five road projects in Karnataka at an estimated cost of Rs 2,545 crore. Some of the roads are four-lane highways and some six-lane.
- Not Just A Sports Story (Telegraph, Gouri Chatterjee, Sep 30, 2004)
It is huge money, enormous power, blinding glamour. It provides the opium to our masses.
- Korean Crisis (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 30, 2004)
North Korean Vice-Foreign Minister Choe Su Hon stunned the world when he disclosed in the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that his country had acquired nuclear weapons to serve as a deterrent against a possible US military strike.
- Questions Of Control (Telegraph, ABHIRUP SARKAR, Sep 30, 2004)
The monster named inflation has raised its ugly head once again. It is eating up real wages and salaries, consumption baskets and, most important, the incomes of the retired who are already put at a huge disadvantage by drastic cuts in the nominal ...
- The Kerry-Bush Contest (Hindu, Sumana Brahman, Sep 30, 2004)
The invasion of Iraq has made the world a more dangerous place for Americans. With John Kerry's leadership, America can regain respect.
- The National Environment Policy (Hindu, N. R. Krishnan , Sep 30, 2004)
The National Environment Policy emphasises that what is good for the environment is also good for the economy and that environmental protection cannot be considered in isolation from the development process.
- One Can Smell Accountants Many A Cyber-Mile Off (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 30, 2004)
In book three of Editing and Design, a Five-Volume Manual of English, Typography and Layout, Harold Evans narrates the story of a fishmonger who had a sign that said:
- Cleaning Up (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 29, 2004)
All power corrupts, cadre power corrupts most corrosively. The Left Front government has a strange propensity to deploy cadre to handle situations that are best left to the administration.
- Create Awareness (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Sep 29, 2004)
It is extremely unlikely that the five veto-wielding powers will let any other country enter the Security Council
- Prime Minister's Foreign Odyssey (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 29, 2004)
HE WENT. He saw. If to say he conquered will be a bit high-blown, certainly he seems to have vibed well with all those he met. He also came through as one who had done his homework well and sown high-yielding seeds for reaping a good diplomatic and ...
- Should We Clear The Way? (Telegraph, Shobita Punja, Sep 29, 2004)
The new director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India, C. Babu Rajeev, has a few targets to meet in his new assignment as the head of India’s largest government-run institution for heritage properties.
- Water For All: Privatisation Not The Solution (Business Line, G. S. Haripriya, Sep 29, 2004)
After the Dublin Conference in 1992 proclaimed that "water has an economic value in all its competing uses and should be recognised as an economic good," multilateral institutions, such as the World Bank, have tried to commodify water across the globe.
- Wdr 2005 Advice To Govts (Business Line, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Sep 29, 2004)
The annual World Development Report for 2005 has come to the conclusion that in order to accelerate growth and reduce poverty, governments must reduce the policy risks...
- Asia Needs Seats At The World Tables (Business Week Online, BRIAN BREMNER, Sep 28, 2004)
The underrepresentation of China, Japan, and India at the IMF and U.N. hinders attempts to resolve critical global problems
- Can A Snack Do For India What Software Can't?: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, Andy Mukherjee, Sep 28, 2004)
As the barely literate wife of a typesetter in Mumbai, Pratibha Sawant had only two options when she wanted to put her children through school 31 years ago: working as a housemaid or rolling poppadums.
- Ramanna & The Nuclear Programme (Hindu, M. R. Srinivasan, Sep 28, 2004)
The legacy of Raja Ramanna is that he helped build up a large pool of scientists and technologists to address the country's needs of energy and national security.
- Succession War In The Bjp (Hindu, Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Sep 28, 2004)
Uma Bharti's Tiranga Yatra has exposed a power struggle in the second rung leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
- Uplift The Poor (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 28, 2004)
None of the findings of the recent World Bank report on “Factors influencing successful primary school completion for children in poverty”, will come as a surprise to anyone — those in the government or those working in the social sector in the country.
- The Missing Link (Telegraph, Dipankar Dasgupta, Sep 28, 2004)
India is emerging as an IT giant even as farmers in Andhra Pradesh are ending their lives in economic despair.
- Pharma Prices: Deregulate In Tapered Doses (Business Line, Pradeep S. Mehta, Sep 28, 2004)
Whether regulating pharma prices in a market-driven economy is correct or not continues to be a matter of debate around the world, including India.
- Detente As An Imperative (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 28, 2004)
The high-level agreement THE HIGH-LEVEL AGREEMENT India and Pakistan reached in New York to press ahead with the process of détente in the spirit of the Islamabad joint statement of January 6, 2004 must be assessed as an excellent political outcome, given
- First Professional Manager Of India (Tribune, Irfan Khan, Sep 28, 2004)
PRAKASH Tandon passed away in Pune last week at the age of 93, missing the century. Without doubt the most celebrated Indian professional manager of the 20th century and arguably the most renowned Chairman of Hindustan Lever so far, he is an icon of moder
- Foreign Trade Policy — Long On Intent, Short On Strategy (Business Line, Bhanoji Rao, Sep 28, 2004)
Though bristling with schemes and plans, the Foreign Trade Policy neither offers convincing steps to substantially cut transaction costs nor spells out international economic strategy.
- Guns And Peace (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 28, 2004)
IN inviting the underground Naxalites for talks on October 2, the Andhra Pradesh Government has broken new ground. The first such initiative between state authorities and Naxalite leaders, with the explicit sanction of the Union Government would be ...
- India's Worsening Fiscal Imbalance (Business Line, S. D. Naik, Sep 28, 2004)
While the latest RBI Annual Report highlights the real GDP growth of 8.2 per cent during the year, it does not hide its concern over the deterioration of government finances, including those of the States.
- Ideological Betrayal On Cards? (Deccan Herald, N C GUNDU RAO, Sep 28, 2004)
The politicians seem to have no scruples in making thoroughly immoral political U-turns
- Foreign Experts — Yes Or No? (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Sep 27, 2004)
It is common knowledge that the very survival of the United Progressive Alliance government led by Dr Manmohan Singh depends on the support from the Left.
- Transition Complete (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 27, 2004)
With President Hu Jintao taking over as Chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC) of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the process of leadership change in China that began two years ago is now complete.
- China's Growth Model Slows Asia's Rise (Business Line, V. Anantha Nageswaran, Sep 27, 2004)
The biggest drawback of China's growth model on the rest of Asia is the perpetuation of the export dependent approach. It has postponed Asia's nascent search for an indigenous or domestic demand-led growth model.
- A New Beginning (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 27, 2004)
It is really "a new beginning" towards improving relations between India and Pakistan. The joint Press statement issued after Friday's one-to-one meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pervez Musharraf in New York showed considerable
- A Study In Contrast — Punjab And Bihar (Business Line, Mohan Guruswamy, Sep 27, 2004)
Being better off does not make a State better, especially when it just means getting more than others from the Centre.
- Heart Less (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 27, 2004)
Weighing-scales are disreputable in India; they are tricked out to give one side advantage over another.
- A Matter Of Perception (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Sep 27, 2004)
Expectations and perceptions, as much as the reality of figures, are important for confidence in the economy.
- The Next Stage Of Peace Process (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 27, 2004)
When tracking diplomacy, microscopic reading of joint statements often leads to a suspension of political judgment. Critics of the meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pervez Musharraf in New York last week might be committing that
- Risks Faced By The Global Economy (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 27, 2004)
Doomsayers abound in the world of the dismal science of economics. Recently, there have been many economists forecasting that the end of the world is nigh. Not all of them are credible.
- Reversal Of Fortunes (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 27, 2004)
If a week IF A WEEK in politics is a long time, four months could be a whole era, judging by how woebegone the Bharatiya Janata Party looks these days. So dramatic has the transformation been that a casual observer might be forgiven for failing to make a
- Pm's Open Invitation (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 27, 2004)
The economic high point of the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh's visit to the US was his request to American corporate heads gathered at the New York Stock Exchange to invest $150 billion in the next few years in infrastructure projects in India ...
- How To Make A Molehill Of A Mountain (Telegraph, Satrujit Banerjee, Sep 27, 2004)
The UPA regime’s desire to help farmers is all very well. But a return to the pre-reform days of dangling subsidies is not the answer
- Let’S Bet On The Future (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Sep 27, 2004)
Yudhoyono is actually quite a serious man who was seen by his army colleagues as efficient and incorruptible, but even his closest adviser, Muhammad Lutfi, admitted:
- Left In A Huff (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 27, 2004)
This piece is not about the merits or otherwise of formal induction of personnel of foreign agencies and consultancy organisations as members of the review committees of the Planning Commission.
- Pawar And The Glory (Telegraph, Satish Nandgaonkar, Sep 26, 2004)
Sharad Pawar, some say, is a man with a vision. Others think not. But everyone agrees that in plotting out an election strategy — both in Maharashtra and the BCCI — the man is indefatigable.
- Ncp-Cong Alliance Will Win Maharashtra Polls: Tripathi (Tribune, Prashant Sood, Sep 26, 2004)
An aide of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, D.P. Tripathi, 54, brings rare academic depth to politics. A former president of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union, Mr Tripathi later taught at Allahabad University.
- Major Hurdle Cleared (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 25, 2004)
A campaign to disseminate information about VAT should be launched
- Every Iraqi Is A Hostage Now (Hindu, Jonathan Steele, Sep 25, 2004)
The United States authorities cannot let Dr. Germ go -- she knows too much.
- Farming In A Dream World (Deccan Herald, Devinder Sharma , Sep 25, 2004)
While farmers in Europe are given state benefits, farmers in India are being left to the mercy of market forces
- Farming In Us And India — The Ground Reality On Subsidies (Business Line, Harish Damodaran , Sep 25, 2004)
A comparison of farm production costs in India with those in the US reveals that the Indian farmer is clearly cost-competitive relative to his American counterpart in virtually every item.
- Dangers Of Quota In Private Sector (Tribune, Pushpesh Kumar, Sep 25, 2004)
In his article (The Tribune, Sept 7) Udit Raj claims that in 1999 there were 481 judges in the high court and that only 15 were from the Scheduled Castes. By this he means the SCs should be recruited on the basis of percentage of their caste in the Indian
- Communication Gap (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 25, 2004)
The investing community in the country could have done without the ongoing controversy involving dissemination of the orders of the Securities Appellate Tribunal. The Securities and Exchange Board of India has suspended posting of these orders since
- A Small Hope (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 25, 2004)
The Punjab Government has lifted the ban on recruitment to fill some 5,000 vacant posts. That the decision comes shortly before the two byelections in the state is not just a coincidence.
- Shouldn't Reforms Be In Better Form? (Business Line, T. N. Pandey, Sep 25, 2004)
Since Independence, a number of tax reforms have been initiated. These include: the Direct Taxes Enquiry Committee (Indrajeet Singh Committee); THE Tyagi Committee; the Law Commission's examination of the 1922 I-T Act as amended by the 1939 Amendment Act
- The Right Note (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 25, 2004)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's address to the 59th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York must be recognised as one of the most thoughtful, thematically interesting, and well-crafted messages delivered by a top Indian ...
- Raja Ramanna: Architect Of N-Plan (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Sep 25, 2004)
Raja Ramanna, an architect of India’s nuclear weapons programme, wore many hats during his lifetime. Nuclear scientist, music aficionado, minister, member of Parliament, tech entrepreneur were the many labels that sat lightly on his broad shoulders.
- We've No Faith In The World Bank But It Is Betting Much On Faith (Business Line, D. Murali , Sep 25, 2004)
A quote from the Rg Veda is `Aa no bhadraah kratavo yantu vishwatah', meaning `Let noble thoughts come to us from every side'.
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